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by potato3732842 239 days ago
>The problem is in the fact that we have been treating more and more banal construction projects as if they were chemical factories.

Add up all the people who benefit from this. The regulatory bureaucracy, the engineering firms, every tradesman who holds a license protecting him from market competition, etc, etc. That's a hell of a lot of people. So the racket goes on.